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Or in my case, Erin Andrews.

Schaub? Maybe. London Fletcher? Definitely snubbed. Polite? Are you f***** high or are you testing to make sure people are actually reading your post?

Countdown until Bay wants to be traded? I bet we could trade for Bay back for a few Dominican guys in rookie ball. Gotta love Omar Minaya.

I just won the championship in my first ever fantasy football season with a 14-1 record and cashed in on $200. Considering everyone else in the league was American...

Yes, but only because when we heard that Ian Kennedy was in the trade, everyone rolled over and went back to bed.

As a player that was on my fantasy team this year, I think he would have an outside shot at top 5 running backs of the year, at the expense of taking a potential comeback player of the year away from Ricky Williams.

No love for the shutdown corners Darrelle Revis or Nnamdi Asomugha?

In the wrong way...

That's bad, even for you Jacko. Even for all of the crazy s*** you've said since I've been here, that's bad. If I can borrow a line from Chris Berman, Tom Jackson, Keyshawn Johnson and Coach Ditka: C'MON MAN!!!!!

Don't get ahead of yourself. The Yanks would have to offer Vasquez arbitration before they can get draft picks, and the Yanks have let alot of Type A's and B's go without offering them arbitration and in the past 2-3 years alone, have left a lot of potential draft picks disappear. And even in the off chance that you do get the draft picks, the Yankees aren't a very good drafting team, so the picks won't necessarily help New York that much, not to mention that the Yankees will most likely lose other draft picks from signing more free agents.

Don't forget that Ortiz (and Lowell) are probably gone after next season, so we will have a flexible DH spot. Not saying that Lars will DH, but we can move around with DH/1B/3B etc.

Is there a Yankee prospect that Jacko doesn't think is great or has high potential? Where's Dipre's chart when you need it?

You can say that it's not the GM's job to be sentimental, but you offered nothing to suggest that it wouldn't be a "dick" move, which in all fairness, is nearly an impossible thing to prove. I understand how being a GM results in moves for the team being more important than sentimental moves, but if you have a player who signed ONLY because it was your team (otherwise he would have gone to college) and you trade him, that is absolutely a dick move. Not only this, but it undermines the value of the word of the franchise. Future players when considering signing with Boston would think "well, they traded Westmoreland, so they might trade me" which would discourage similar cases from ever signing with the Red Sox. A similar situation is Junichi Tazawa. He took less money to play in Boston because he wanted to be with his idol Daisuke Matsuzaka. If we traded Tazawa, we would be doing a dick move that would make us look bad to some in Japan, which may hurt us in the future. I'm not saying that we shouldn't trade Westmoreland if we could get Gonzalez, but I'd prefer many packages involving most others, especially considering how good he is/projects to be. I just think it would be a total dick move to trade him if the ONLY reason why he signed was to be with Boston. We might as well have just let him go to Vanderbilt.

Whether one can call it crazy, faithful, or delusional, I'm still optimistic that something can be done for Adrian Gonzalez, if not now, then by the trade deadline. While I don't want to give up too much all together, or too much of our farm system vs. too much of our major league team, I think a fair balance can be achieved. I believe Theo offered 2 separate but similar packages to the Twins for Santana, and I think a similar approach here can be effective. We obviously don't want to give up both Kelly/Westmoreland because it'll rape our farm system, and we don't want to give up both Buchholz/Ellsbury because that'll make too many holes in our major league team. Similarly, we don't want to give up too much quality from the same position, so we shouldn't give up both Buchholz/Kelly or both Ellsbury/Westmoreland. That leaves us with a package starting with Ellsbury/Kelly, or Buchholz/Westmoreland. I would opt for the first package because I want to keep Buchholz in our rotation, and I think that since we have 4 good OF's that Ellsbury is more replaceable than Buchholz, at least for now. My bigger reason for choosing this beginning package is because we signed Westmoreland out of high school only because he wanted to play with the Red Sox. He's from Rhode Island and had a scholarship to Vanderbilt, but chose to sign with us because he wanted to play with his favourite team. I think it would be a dick move to then trade him before he got a shot at Boston. So I would start with Ellsbury and Kelly, and then add something like Bowden, Doubront and Wagner. That seems like a balance of pitching and position players, and we'd only lose Ellsbury off of our immediate major league team and while we'd lose our top prospect, the others are in the 11-20 range in our system, and with our extra draft picks we can compensate for some of the damage, not to mention we'd be adding Adrian f****** Gonzalez.

And 7th, unless you plan on stashing Max Ramirez in AAA, then you forgot about him. Besides, I don't need to come up with a plan because Theo has already done most of his work. If this thread were made a few weeks ago, then it'd be a more opportune time to play the guessing game, but there's no point in playing the guessing game well into the off season. That's like filling out your March Madness bracket at the Sweet 16.

Here's what I can think of that's wrong with your post. First of all, signing Nick Green. Second, you'd be giving up way too much for Hanley Ramirez, who plays a position that we just signed a player (and lost a draft pick) for. If we didn't sign Scutaro and gave up less in the trade to the Marlins, then your idea would make some sense, but since neither of those are true, you're f***** crazy. Third, your proposed lineup has 10 players. Fourth, you're raping our farm system for inefficient help to our major league team. And Fifth, you're absolutely raping our bullpen. We had a great bullpen last year and we're losing Saito and Wagner, and you propose trading Delcarmen and Bard? We'd only have Ramirez Oki and Papelbon left. There's no way that we'd have Bowden, Richardson, and Tazawa in the same bullpen until September callups. And Sixth, similar to point 3, your roster has 26 players when you're only allowed 25. Other than all of that, your plan is pretty good. I like what you did with the rotation, that's probably the only thing you did right.

I had you on my ignore list, but then again I needed your stupid comments to cheer me up throughout the day. The economy may be in the shitter and my sports teams aren't doing terribly well, but one thing I can always count on is GOM being on the bottom of the totem pole and finding new ways to amuse me.

And your intelligence (or lack thereof)...

On another site someone showed a spray chart of Adrian Gonzalez's HR's and flyouts in Petco superimposed on Fenway, and showed that double digit flyouts at Petco were doubles/HR's at Fenway. If only I could find the damn thing.

Does anyone else think that Lackey sounds like a Ray Romano with a Texas accent?

Plus the Yanks are probably saving up for the 2011 FA class, one probably better than this year's class.